RE: Logrotate: 2 questions

2003-08-14 Thread Jason Staudenmayer
Logrotate does what it says. Rotate log files. This is most certainly needed or you logfiles will fill your drive. Why it's not finishing? I've never seen that, maybe it's looking for a log file that's not there or there is some other process that is hanging it. After it rotates the file it sends t

Re: Logrotate: 2 questions

2003-08-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
Keith Soares wrote: What happens is that each night a 4:02am it runs, but it seems to take a very long time to run and use a lot of resources. It shows up as using over 94% of the CPU time in Running Processes (Webmin). Plus to make matters worse, it doesn’t complete before the next instance run

Re: Logrotate: 2 questions

2003-08-09 Thread Jason Dixon
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 10:15, Keith Soares wrote: > We have a RH Linux 7.3 web server that has what I believe to be a > default setup of logrotate running each night. > > My first question is: what is the purpose of the default > installation/setup of logrotate? What is it rotating? I ask because I

RE: Logrotate: 2 questions

2003-08-07 Thread Keith Soares
Your answer is dead-on correct - thank you so much! --- Keith Soares Bean Creative -Original Message- From: Gordon Messmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 10:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Logrotate: 2 questions Keith Soares wrote: > What happens